One should be able to disable onboard sound in the BIOS.
On Dec 6, 12:49 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> About 5 years ago I bought a no-name brand computer running XP.
> After several days use my sound volume went down to the point that I could
> barely hear anything with the volume cranked all the way.
> I called the manufacturer and told them about this and they said if I
> shipped it back they would send me another. I decided not to go this route
> since I
> would have to pay the $40 shipping charge and had already invested a lot of
> time installing apps.
> I bought a sound blaster card for $15 and installed it.
> In order to get it to work I had to go to Device Manager and disable the
> SiS drivers (which were for the onboard system) and install the sound
> blaster
> drivers.
> Every so often it would revert to the old drivers when I rebooted but I
> solved that by using the uninstall command instead.
> I've had to format and reinstall Windows several times now and wondered why
> the sound was so bad until I remembered the card and had to go through the
> process again.
> May I ask why you want to install a sound card?
> Engineman
>
> In a message dated 12/6/2008 9:23:06 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> I would like to know, what would happen if I installed a secondary
> sound card in my system, besides the onboard sound system that comes
> with the motherboard of my computer?
>
> Brandon Taylor
>
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